Burnaby can boast some impressive brain power.
Recently, Geordie Rose, founder and chief technical officer of D-Wave Systems Inc., was honoured as a leading global thinker by Foreign Policy magazine, according to a press release from the company.
D-Wave is a quantum computing company in Burnaby, which was profiled in the Burnaby NOW previously.
Rose was included in the 2013 list of Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers for his work “fighting to restructure how we see and use computers” in the field of quantum computing, the release stated.
Rose and the other global thinkers were honoured at the Foreign Policy Transformational Trends Forum in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.
SFU student one of The Next 36
A Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business student will be part of the 2014 class of The Next 36, according to an SFU press release.
Chantelle Buffie is one of 40 successful candidates out of about 1,000 applicants who applied nationally to the program, a very selective Canadian entrepreneurial leadership initiative, the release stated, adding she is the third SFU student to secure a place in the program.
The candidates will spend nine months building companies with help from the program.
Buffie, who lives in Surrey, has been working for Telus full-time since completing a co-op term, the release stated.
Buffie was also named the 2013 HSBC Women Leader of Tomorrow for Western Canada, among other recent achievements, according to the release.
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